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ted her up into his pi&ure room, saying
madam I have something above to shew
you. Now the reader will naturally con-
clude, as slie did, that it was some further
progress upon my pisture, which as it
was lait left, had something of the appear-
ance (for want of light and shade in the
drapery) of a drowned man ready to
burst, or rather of a ragged body which
had been blown about upon a gibbet on
Hounssow Heath, for the dog’s head, and
his masters, were the only parts that be-
trayed the pencil of so great a master.
But upon Mrs. Thicknesses entering the
room she found it was to flrew her, Mr.
Fischer’s portrait, painted at full length,
compleatly finished, in scarlet and gold,
like a Colonel of the foot guards, and
mme
ted her up into his pi&ure room, saying
madam I have something above to shew
you. Now the reader will naturally con-
clude, as slie did, that it was some further
progress upon my pisture, which as it
was lait left, had something of the appear-
ance (for want of light and shade in the
drapery) of a drowned man ready to
burst, or rather of a ragged body which
had been blown about upon a gibbet on
Hounssow Heath, for the dog’s head, and
his masters, were the only parts that be-
trayed the pencil of so great a master.
But upon Mrs. Thicknesses entering the
room she found it was to flrew her, Mr.
Fischer’s portrait, painted at full length,
compleatly finished, in scarlet and gold,
like a Colonel of the foot guards, and
mme